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Coast Guard rescues missing man

MOBILE, Ala. — Coast Guard crewmembers (from left) Petty Officer 3rd Class Caleb Flippin, Ensign Miek Yanez, Petty Officer 3rd Class Brandon Caskey, Lt. Cmdr. Breanna Knutson and Ensign Mike Yanez from Air Station New Orleans pose at the Panama City Airport with a man they rescued after he was reported missing last night when he didn’t return with the jet ski he rented, March, 2, 2010. The man ran out of gas and had run aground due to the strong winds. The crew hoisted the man and transported him safely to Panama City Airport where emergency medical technicians were standing by.

U.S. Coast Guard photograph.

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Mayday! Bering Sea — Discovery Channel Special on Alaskan Ranger. March 3, 2010

Seattle fishing boat sinks at sea; 4 dead, search continues for missing crewman

Shortly before 3 a.m. Sunday, the Coast Guard in Alaska got a chilling call from a Seattle-based fishing vessel out in the Bering Sea. “Mayday “Mayday! Mayday! Mayday…

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A NATO destroyer has sunk a pirate mothership in the Indian Ocean off the Somali coast after allowing the crew to leave, the alliance said Monday.

Shona Lowe, an anti-piracy spokeswoman, said the HDMS Absalon - the Danish flagship of the three-vessel NATO flotilla in the region - disrupted a pirate operation by “scuttling” one of the large boats used by Somali gangs to transport attack teams to piracy hunting areas far off the coast.

The mothership was fired on and sunk after its crew members were transferred to a smaller boat in tow, which was allowed to return to the mainland, she said.

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Death of NFL Players in Boat Accident Recalled by Sole Survivor

One year ago, athletic trainer Nick Schuyler survived for 43 hours clinging to an overturned boat in the Gulf of Mexico, in an accident that took the lives of two National Football League players and another friend.

KINGSTON — Capt. Matthew Perricone of the tugboat Cornell says that when he spotted a woman who’d jumped from the Mid-Hudson Bridge in slushy Hudson River waters Sunday afternoon there was no question what to do.

“When somebody is in the water, you get them out of there,” said Perricone, 29, of Valhalla. “When somebody needs help, you help them.”

So that’s what Perricone and his crew aboard the Cornell, which docks at the city’s Rondout waterfront, did.

According to city of Poughkeepsie police, a woman jumped off the Mid-Hudson Bridge shortly before 1:45 p.m. The woman, who was not identified, was injured and transported to St. Francis Hospital in Poughkeepsie.

Police were uncertain of her condition Monday, but said she had survived.

Just after the woman jumped off the bridge, Perricone and his crew aboard the Cornell were traveling along the river near the Mid-Hudson Bridge.

The tugboat had spent the day helping another tugboat cut though ice along the shores at Newburgh, Perricone said Monday.

“We were coming home,” Perricone said.

But before they arrived in Kingston, Perricone said, he spotted the woman in a slushy spot about 30 feet from land on the Dutchess County side of the river.

“We all thought that she was dead,” Perricone said.,

The tugboat veered toward the woman and the crew prepared for a rescue. About 50 feet away from her, Perricone said, a crew member, Tim Ivory, had some news.

“She had raised her hand up and (he) yelled, ‘she’s alive,’” Perricone said.

Ivory, who is a skilled lineman, tossed a rope out to the woman and “it landed right on top of her,” Perricone said.

A portion of the slush had been cut away by the tugboat so the crew were able to pull the woman through icy waters, Perricone said.

At that point, she was brought aboard and transported by other rescue workers to St. Francis Hospital.

Perricone has been working tugboats along the Hudson River for about eight years. For the past three years, he has been captain and owner of the Cornell.

Perricone said he has never participated in such a rescue, but doesn’t consider it a deed of heroism.

“I would hope that this would be something any good mariner would do,” Perricone said.

Tsunami Safety & Preparedness in Hawaiʻi

Do you live or work in a tsunami evacuation zone? Enter your address or search for your island area and see for yourself. You can also find these maps in the front of any Hawaiʻi phonebook or the Pacific Disaster Center website.

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